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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 30
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Israel scattered for rejecting her seers and prophets—She shall be gathered and blessed temporally and spiritually—The Lord shall come in a day of apostasy to judge and destroy the wicked.
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Woe</span> to the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Rebellion; TG Stiffneckedness.">rebellious</a> children, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that take <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/30/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Counselors.">counsel</a>, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
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That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Trust Not in the Arm of Flesh.">Pharaoh</a>, and to trust <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/30/2b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE in an alliance with Egypt for protection against Assyria.">in</a> the shadow of <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/30/2c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 2: 18 (14-19).">Egypt</a>!
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Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt <i>your</i> confusion.
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For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
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They <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/5a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR will be.">were</a> all <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/30/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 2: 36.">ashamed</a> of a people <i>that</i> could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE a message of doom for those of Judah who travel with loads of gifts on animals toward Egypt (v. 2-7).">burden</a> of the beasts of the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/30/6b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB Negev; i.e. the southern desert.">south</a>: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence <i>come</i> the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people <i>that</i> shall not profit <i>them.</i>
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 4: 17.">Egyptians</a> shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength <i>is</i> to sit still.
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&#182; Now go, <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Preservation of; TG Scriptures, Writing of.">write</a> it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
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That <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE the Israelite people who won’t hearken to the prophets.">this</a> <i>is</i> a <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/30/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hel. 13: 26 (25-28).">rebellious</a> people, lying children, children <i>that</i> will not hear the law of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>:
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Which say to the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Seer.">seers</a>, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/30/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG False Doctrine.">smooth</a> things, prophesy <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/30/10c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Honesty.">deceits</a>:
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Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
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Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
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Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
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And he shall break it as the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 2: 9.">breaking</a> of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water <i>withal</i> out of the pit.
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For thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Silence.">quietness</a> and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
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But ye said, No; for we will flee upon <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 31: 1.">horses</a>; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
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One thousand <i>shall flee</i> at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 113: 6.">ensign</a> on an hill.
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&#182; And therefore will the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE The LORD will wait until the day of restoration to bless Israel with his presence.">wait</a>, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> a God of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/30/18b" mark="b" type="R" title="HEB justice; TG Judgment.">judgment</a>: blessed <i>are</i> all they that <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/30/18c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 98: 2.">wait</a> for him.
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For the people shall dwell in <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Zion.">Zion</a> at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
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And <i>though</i> the Lord give you the bread of <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Adversity.">adversity</a>, and the water of affliction, yet shall not <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/30/20b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB thy teacher; i.e. the LORD.">thy</a> teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/30/20c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Teachers.">teachers</a>:
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And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This <i>is</i> the way, <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walk</a> ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
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Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
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Then shall he give the rain <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/23a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE for thy seed.">of</a> thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
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The oxen likewise and the young asses that <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/24a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB work the soil.">ear</a> the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
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And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers <i>and</i> streams of waters in the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/25a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE day of destruction of all enemies.">day</a> of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
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Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/26a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE heals their affliction (after long exile).">stroke</a> of their wound.
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&#182; Behold, the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/27a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE A symbol of his power will come to destroy ‘Assyria’ or wickedness (see v. 31).">name</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> cometh from far, burning <i>with</i> his <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/30/27b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Indignation of.">anger</a>, and the burden <i>thereof is</i> heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
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And his <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 11: 4.">breath</a>, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/30/28b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 8: 8.">neck</a>, to sift the nations with the sieve of <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/30/28c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>: and <i>there shall be</i> a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing <i>them</i> to err.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/29a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE the righteous survivors.">Ye</a> shall have a song, as in the night <i>when</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/30/29b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB the sanctifying of a feast day.">a</a> holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/30/29c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 2: 3 (2-3); D&C 49: 25.">mountain</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, to the <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/30/29d" mark="d" type="P" title="HEB rock.">mighty</a> One of Israel.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of <i>his</i> anger, and <i>with</i> the flame of a devouring fire, <i>with</i> scattering, and <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 28: 2.">tempest</a>, and hailstones.
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For through the voice of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 37: 36.">Assyrian</a> be beaten down, <i>which</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/30/31b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 10: 24 (24-27).">smote</a> with a rod.
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And <i>in</i> every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall lay upon him, <i>it</i> shall be with tabrets and harps: and <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/32a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB with waves of battles.">in</a> battles of shaking will he fight <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/30/32b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR against them.">with</a> it.
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For <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/30/33a" mark="a" type="E" title="IE the place of burning; 2 Kgs. 23: 10.">Tophet</a> <i>is</i> ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made <i>it</i> deep <i>and</i> large: the pile thereof <i>is</i> fire and much wood; the breath of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
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